[Libre-soc-dev] versa_ecp5.py paramaterization update

Cole Poirier colepoirier at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 04:32:36 BST 2020


On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:24 PM Cole Poirier <colepoirier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:19 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 3:15 AM Cole Poirier <colepoirier at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Well I’m glad at least ppc64 is already gdb. So the server remote serial
> > > protocol needs to be implemented for the chip?
> >
> > no.
> >
> > JTAG TAP is already done and is not a remote protocol.
> >
> > we do not need a gdb-server developer
> >
> > we do not need a gdb developer

Source of my confusion about gdb from today's daily update thread:
```http://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2020-October/000873.html
Cole:
> What should I do now? Try sending commands over JTAG, openocd, gdb?
Luke:
gdb will not work because there is absolutely zero support in gdb or
openocd for PowerISA processors, believe it or not.
```

Cole



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